Wednesday, March 30, 2005

The government is hiring more regulators than policemen, according to analysis of official employment data by the Centre for Economics and Business Research....

Mark Pragnell, a CEBR economist, said: "We were also rather amazed to see that government has hired 5,000 more town planners. What do these people actually do?"...

The CEBR says that Britain now employs ... 25 per cent fewer architects than in 2001. "Perhaps they have all transformed themselves into town planners," Pragnell suggested...[Telegraph, via Tim Worstall]